János Varga

János Varga (born October 21, 1939) is a Hungarian wrestler and both Olympic champion and world champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.

Olympics

Varga competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City where he received a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the bantamweight class.^[1]

Varga won a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1963 FILA Wrestling World Championships, and again a gold medal in 1970. He received a silver medal in 1967, and a bronze medal in 1971.

Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman bantamweight

1924 Eduard Pütsep (EST) 1928 Kurt Leucht (GER) 1932 Jakob Brendel (GER) 1936 Márton Lőrincz (HUN) 1948 Kurt Pettersén (SWE) 1952 Imre Hódos (HUN) 1956 Konstantin Vyrupayev (URS) 1960 Oleg Karavayev (URS) 1964 Masamitsu Ichiguchi (JPN) 1968 János Varga (HUN) 1972 Rustam Kazakov (URS) 1976 Pertti Ukkola (FIN) 1980 Shamil Serikov (URS) 1984 Pasquale Passarelli (FRG) 1988 András Sike (HUN) 1992 An Han-bong (KOR) 1996 Yuriy Melnichenko (KAZ) 2000 Armen Nazaryan (BUL) 2004 István Majoros (HUN) 2008 Nazyr Mankiev (RUS) 2012 Hamid Sourian (IRI) 2016 Ismael Borrero (CUB)

−58 kg (1924–1928) −56 kg (1932–1936) −57 kg (1948–1996) −58 kg (2000) −55 kg (2004–2012) −59 kg (2016–Present)

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